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Craft one Crit D x3 after 100 attempts...yay!!!!
lingeringsoul888
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I managed to craft ONE Crit D x3 beam after making 100 of them, and ONE Crit Dx2 Crit H, the rest.......useless garbage.
I'm just celebrating. 400 more to craft for a whole set.
I'm just celebrating. 400 more to craft for a whole set.
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That's roughly my success rate as well, it takes forever.
The plus side is that those mark II beams are a dime a dozen to craft, it's just boring doing it over and over again.
I actually get [CritD]x2 [CritH] quite a bit, I throw those right up on the exchange.
Sometimes you get CritDx2 with PEN mod.. those sell for a lot as well. If you get one of those you can usually sell it for enough to buy 1 or 2 CritDx3 Beams off the exchange.
I only ever managed to make Crit D Crit H Pen, are those popular at all?
I've thrown away most of the DMG ones, or the double ACC
I'm just thankful the Mark II beams cost next to nothing to make, otherwise, I wouldn't even bother starting.
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ready for the end of year anniversary event to start harvesting the omega upgrades until my hands bleed.
Original Join Date: January 30th, 2010
I find it wasteful to try and upgrade CritDx2 weapons in the hopes of getting x3.
The chances you're going to get that 3rd critical modifier are slim and if you don't, you waste resources upgrading a weapon you're not going to keep. Mark II weapons are cheap to make, I just keep making the Mark II until I get CritDx3 and then I start upgrading.
The Crit mod is what I want, so even if I get damage or something useless for the 4th mod, I can still use the weapon. If I get really lucky and get a 4th CritD (only happened to me once) I actually sell it. The CritDx4 is nice, but people pay 40M+ for those things. The last one I made bought me a Plasmonic Leech that did much more for me then an extra 20% Crit on one of my weapons.
When my characters first hit 50 I'll take CritDx2 beams that I make and just upgrade them to Mark XII. I roll with those until I can make a set of x3 that I take to Mk XIV. I don't think I ever once managed to get a CritDx2 to CritDx3 during the upgrade process. I always get terrible mods. :mad:
Unfortunately, DPS is everything in this game. The Acc Mod is desired in PvP, but is useless in PVE. You don't miss anyway, so bonus accuracy does little for you. The best you get from ACC is that once your ACC gets over 100% it contributes to Critical chance and damage. But that bonus doesn't stack with FAW, Scatter Volley, etc. CritDx3 gives you an extra 20% critical over x2 on each weapon and stacks with FAW and other abilities. Taking all your weapons from CritDx2 to x3 gives you a rather large overall DPS increase. That's why they're so desired.
CritDX4 Beams go for 40-50M each if you can believe that.
Heck, I even keep [acc] [crtd]x2 or 3 [pen], when crafted.
I am not a huge fan of the [crth] mod, as it just seems to low of a chance mod, to be of great value imo.
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I'll wait until I can choose mods..
yes sure, you can heal yourself, but with these new foe don't even try to heal the other players. And yes, DPS is everything, this is why i change the build of my sci captain, i need more firepower to fight the heralds; grav well etc are cool, but they have also longer cd. btw, my current sci build -> 17500 dps, and even in normal stfs (grethor, herald sphere), this is not enough.
DPS is life, in STO.
AND I CANT SELL THIS S HIT ON THE EXCHANGE!!!!!!!
DPS is king...everything else is secondary, at least in my experience. It's just the design of the game. Regardless I think you missed the mark on what the point the OP was trying to make.
It shows just how crafting is horribly inefficient and a waste of time/money/resources/bother etc. The entire system never made any sense to me and the word 'crafting' is a very loose term in this game.
The theory of probability can really play some nasty tricks on you while crafting with the current chances
The crafting revamp had some good qualities but a lot of bad stuff too, including the RNG being annoying. Let's add a bunch of crafting only mods that don't bring anything good to the table! I mean at least now you can sort of control what mods you finally end up with, but by control I really mean 'keep plugging away until you get CrtDx3 or CrtDx2 with Pen or Acc or CrtH. Oh and if you upgrade it and get dmg haha start again'. :v
..ok, maybe it is. But, other than chasing the Big DPS Numbers, what content in the game needs the extra DPS gained by going from CrtDx2/(other useful mod) to CrtDx3? Let alone trying to stack CrtDx4.
Seems like it's mostly a competitiveness/ego/"keeping up with the Jones' " thing. Not actually needed for gameplay. (But maybe that's just because I've never been a big min/maxer.... :P)
edit: on the other hand, if that's what you enjoy doing in a game, go for it!
New Elites do.
Also higher DPS helps clear easier content much faster, increasing the rate at which you can grind out marks, dil and crafting materials.
I think it comes down to the point that all of the modifiers arent as equally useful. If the devs balanced the impact of each of the modifiers, this wouldnt be an issue.
I do miss the old way of farming, you'd go to a certain star cluster and could farm whatever common materials where guarenteed there. Blues were still a random drop but not too hard to get.
Now you have the play PvE lotto R&D box and the Z-store one where you're not guarenteed to get the materials you want or need.
So its all time gated on earning materials, time gated on levelling the schools, time gated on crafting the items, time gated to upgrade the items (if you want) any other gates i missed ?. Oh and other than levelling the schools the rest is random chance.
Cryptic do like their lotteries and random drops.
I understand this mentality, but where is the tipping point? At what point do you over-gear the content? Players say they spend all this EC/Dil/time to make the queues go faster, but how much faster does it need to be?
The difference between a MK XIV [crtd]x2 [crth] and a MK XIV [acc][crtd][crth] (for example) is small enough that most players should not care about it. The min-maxers are the only ones that should be striving for a rare set of perfect mods.
Yeah, some players desire to max out their efficiency in all the things, and that's not a bad thing. If you enjoy it, go for it.
The problem is when that attitude turns from 'what I find fun' to 'everyone else should also do this'.
Uhmmm the difference between CrtD and CrtDx2 is very significant, and CrtDx3 and CrtDx4 are even more powerful.
Its not just about min-maxing, it greatly adds to the combat peformance of your weapon, especially when crit stacking like a lot of people do these days.
And for an ability like Surgical Strikes, CrtDx4 is the be all and end all of weapons mods.
My point is that you said players want these uber-beams so they can finish things faster. For what reason? To farm materials so they can create more uber-beams... so they can finish even faster... so they can create more uber-beams... so they can finish even faster... etc. Rather cyclic, eh?
And yes, the difference between [crtd] and [crtd]x2 is significant... to a minority of players. Why isn't it significant to the majority of players? Because these players are looking to have fun, and to most of them, chasing DPS isn't fun. You can have [acc]x4 (don't even know if that's possible, tbh) and still be able to complete all advanced content in the game. Will it take longer? Sure, but my guess is it will still be finished.
I agree; i don't like the dps race, but when the mobs have huge hp and most of the stfs have timers, we don't have the choice. take gateway to grethor, in this stf there is 2 timers, if the optionals are a failure, you lose a significant number of marks.
In ISA, spheres have ridiculous hp, without dps, impossible to succeed the entire mission.
the heralds vongh or phong!!! have also too many hp, even the baltrim raider has too many hp.
and the tholian ships in cca!!. even the mesh wavers have more hp than my Avenger
this game is not balanced. no damages = no optionals
if a lot players use the dps channels, this is not for the pleasure (at least for some of them
the stfs are not difficult, but mobs have so much hp, that we simply need firepower to destroy them with efficiency
Yup it was one of the few things that actually kept me in game and not log in run 1 or 2 STFs maybe chat with fleetmates TRIBBLE and logout.
I used like farming R&D mats when the crafting system wasnt this goddarn lottery everything about cryptic now is money grabs and lottery.
Mark CrtD as what you want, have a higher chance to get it.
Still keeps the random aspect Cryptic wants to have for whatever reason, makes it a bit easier on the players.
Dil costs for upgrades should be cut in half though, it's absurd, and a /random/ dil sink isn't the dil sink I want.